{"product_id":"the-world-of-proust-9780262524261","title":"The World of Proust","description":"\u003cp\u003eMarcel Proust (1871-1922) was one of the great geniuses of modern literature. Born in Auteil to wealthy bourgeois parents  he suffered delicate health as a child. During his high school years  he began to frequent salons such as that of Madame Arman  a friend of Anatole France. Troubled by asthma and neuroses  as well as by the deaths of his parents  Proust increasingly withdrew from the outer world and after 1907 lived mainly in a cork-lined room  working at night on his monumental novel A la recherche du temps perdu (Remembrance of Things Past).  The World of Proust  as seen by Paul Nadar offers an intimate stroll through the society on which Prousts novel is based. The heart of the book consists of photographs found in the archive of Paul Nadar. These photographs make up a portrait gallery of Prousts friends and familyas well as of the aristocrats  artists  bourgeoisie  actresses  and \"tarts\" who inhabit the novel. Included are portraits of Sarah Bernhardt  Jean Cocteau  Alphonse Daudet  Claude Debussy  Stephane Mallarme  Claude Monet  and Emile Zola. Each photograph is accompanied by a detailed caption describing the subject and the character in the novel modeled on that person.  Paul Nadar (1856-1939)  the son of \"Nadar \" was part of the famous Nadar atelier. He took over his fathers business and founded the journal Paris Photographe in 1891.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45651564134453,"sku":"ByrdShop_0262524260","price":228.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780262524261.jpg?v=1781835747","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-world-of-proust-9780262524261","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}